Valve



W. V. MOORE June 14, 1938.

VALVE Filed Aug. 30, 1957 BY whyam ATTORNEYS Patented June 14, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

The invention relates to a valve and more especially to a steam valve fitting for pressing implements.

The primary object of the invention is the pro- 5 vision of a fitting of this character, wherein avalve controls admission of steam to a pressing iron, the valve being controlled by hand and is normally closed.

Another object of the invention is the provision 10 of a fitting of this character, which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efiicient in operation, readily and easily controlled, conveniently located upon the iron for hand manipulation, strong, durable, and inexpensive to manufac 15 ture and install.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in 20 the accompanying drawing, which discloses the preferred embodiment of the invention and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of an iron showing 5 the fitting constituting the present invention applied.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevation.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary vertical longitudinal sectional View.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Figure 3 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Similar reference characters indicate corre sponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

, 35 Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates generally a movable machine iron having extended perpendicularly from its top a handle 5 of conventional kind so that such iron can be manually operated for pressing purposes and such iron is 40 merely shown to illustrate the application of the invention in the nature of a valve fitting in that the latter is applicable to other implements for controlling steam admission thereto, the fitting being hereinafter fully described.

45 The fitting constituting the present invention comprises a substantially Y-shaped body 6 having a goose neck end 1 formed with a threaded nipple 8 tapped into the iron A through the top thereof and in this manner the fitting is joined with the 50 said iron. The long arm 9 of the body 6 has therein a needle valve I0 for seating at H to shut off the inlet passage I2 for steam to be admitted into the iron, this passage l2 being formed in the shorter arm l3 which is at an angle to the arm 8 and extends laterally to one side, preferably the right hand side, of the iron.

The needle valve at its outer end carries a push button head I4 while surrounding this valve is a coiled retractile spring l5, one end being fixed to the valve and the other end to a cap-like packing gland IS, the purpose of the spring 15 being to urge the valve In seated at H and thus shutting off steam supply to the iron. 10

Fitted at the top of the iron and uppermost on the arm 6 of the fitting are guides I! in which is slidab-ly held a control rod l8 having a downturned fork end I!) straddling the valve Ill and operating against the push button head l4 while the other end of the rod I8 is in the form of an upstanding trigger arranged adjacent to the fore part of the handle 5 and is manually actuated, being convenient for finger manipulation when an operator is gripping the handle 5 by the 20 hand.

On pushing the rod I8 at the trigger end 20, the Valve I0 is unseated allowing steam supply to the iron.

What is claimed is: 26

A valve fitting for a steam receiving pressing implement having a chambered body with a fiat top and a handle rising from said top, comprising a multiple branch pipe, one branch being fitted to the body at its top for communication with the 30 chamber and the remaining branches disposed above and substantially parallel with the said top, the said remaining branches being angled to each other for lateral projection of one with respect to the body and the diagonal disposition of the other to the top of said body, a slide valve Within the diagonally disposed branch and normally closing the laterally directed branch, a steam supply pipe connected with the laterally directed branch, a headed stem forming a part of said valve, a guide eye rising from the first-mentioned pipe, an actuating rod trained through said guide eye for disposition diagonally of the handle with the major portion of said rod underlying the handle, a down-turned yoke formed on the rod next to the stem and abutting the head thereof at the innermost side of the same, a forwardly and upwardly curved grip formed from the rod and disposed adjacent to and forwardly of the foremost end of the handle, and a spring connected with the firstmentioned pipe and to the said stem for urging the valve to closing position.

WILLIAM V. MOORE. 

